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I may be seeing this wrong, but it looks like you're taking the padding all the way up to the verveilles on the outside of the helmet. Just be careful because that will push the maille out and could interfere with the closing of your visor. Make sure you test fit with the visor if that's what you're doing. On my padding it protects my face, but around the sides the padding goes on the inside of the helmet so that up at the verveilles there's only maille.

I may be seeing this wrong, but it looks like you're taking the padding all the way up to the verveilles on the outside of the helmet. Just be careful because that will push the maille out and could interfere with the closing of your visor. Make sure you test fit with the visor if that's what you're doing. On my padding it protects my face, but around the sides the padding goes on the inside of the helmet so that up at the verveilles there's only maille.

Ian, you’re absolutely correct. I plan to stop the padding about 1 inch short of the verveilles so as to not interfere with the leather aventail support band which mounts over the fabric aventail. You made a good point that the visor will have to be included in test fits from this point forward. I will be padding all the way up to the “valley” between the chin and lower lip up front.

The excess fabric from the inner shell peeking from behind the outer shell will get trimmed. I’m just not sure yet if I can fit two layers of fabric over the verveilles AND the leather aventail band. I might have to trim the inner shell back considerably and sew it to the outer shell at the same level as the bottom edge of the bascinet. Time (and test fits) will tell.

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"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." - Roger the Shrubber

"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." - Roger the Shrubber

Looks great Scott! The only thing I did differently is when the padding reaches the helmet, it goes on the inside of the helmet and then I stitched it to the liner. I think your way will secure it just as well. Let us know!

"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." - Roger the Shrubber

"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." - Roger the Shrubber

"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." - Roger the Shrubber

With two layers of fabric added under the leather aventail support band, I'm unable to string my old red cord through the vervelles. A solid brass wire was used instead.

I started pinning the mail aventail to the padded aventail and discovered that my pattern was too long (the outer diameter was too great) at the NE, NW, SE, and SW points. I'll have to do some last minute creative trimming and sewing before proceeding.

"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." - Roger the Shrubber

These are the four sections that needed to be trimmed. After the trimming, I simply folded in the raw edges approximately ½” and joined the outer and inner shells with a running stitch. I really didn’t want this exposed stitch on the bottom edge of the padded aventail, but such is life.

The last step was to join the bottom edges of the mail and padded aventails with synthetic waxed leather crafting thread. As Ian suggested above, I used a simple whip stitch.

I’m attending an SCA event tomorrow and hope to have good pictures of the finished product posted soon.

"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history." - Roger the Shrubber